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Aspects of Cognitive Psychology

strong enough, people will seek and generate information that will help them prepare for a future social setting. They also spend ...

Saving Jews from the Holocaust examined in terms of cognitive dissonance theories.

A paper which considers cognitive dissonance with specific reference to saving Jews from the Nazi Holocaust. The writer takes the ...

Basis of Cognitive Psychology and Ecological Validity

psychology has paved the way for a paradigm change in science. The same paradigm shift that facilitated psychologys change in foc...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Used in the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

a result, more diagnoses have been made (Grinage, 2003). It is now something that is also associated with trauma stemming from chi...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

could impede therapeutic progress (Martin, 2007). Beck decided it was essential to be able to identify and discuss these automati...

Psychology of Love v. Hate

a murderer sees the violence that he perpetrates as his only means of salvaging his sense of self, of maintaining his pride (Gilli...

Processes of Decision Making

and how to physically hurt another human being. The objective of the experiment was to try and determine under what circumstances...

Counseling Sessions and Content Influencing

scenario: a 28-year old man arrives at his counseling session. The first session is the interview during which time, the man expla...

Borderline Personality Disorder and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treatment

to have their first interactions with a person with BPD as a result of emergency room visits following suicidal attempts. The the...

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND FACIAL EXPRESSIONS RESEARCH

This 6-page research provides a literature review about cognitive psychology and research on facial expressions. A discussion abou...

Milestones in Cognitive Psychology

(University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 2008). There are five common themes among cognitive psychologists: analysis is perceived as ...

How to Retain Cognitive Abilities as We Age

This research paper presents a discussion of aging and how it affects cognitive function. The realities of cognitive aging are des...

Festinger and Carlsmith's Seminal Study

Many of us have experienced cognitive dissonance. It happens when we say or do something that is against our personal beliefs. Thi...

Early Language Acquisition

Cognitive development is about information processing, reasoning, intelligence, memory, and language development. It is about the ...

Comparing Psychotherapeutic Interventions

The therapist used progressive relaxation, desensitization, psycho-education, and cognitive restructuring (Chaudhury et al., 2009)...

The Role of Cognitive Change

more they participate in skills that advance their understanding of language, their functional memory and their understanding o co...

Social Cognitive Personality Theory

reinforced to continue a behavior. He and a collaborator discovered that if a child came from a home where hostility was demonstra...

Early Cognitive Theorists

etc. This has become the basic element in memory research. A local telephone number is 7 digits which is why it is easier to remem...

Topics Pertaining to Learning

it draws on what students already know, which aids them in assimilating new material. The learning environment should be both chal...

Vygotsky and Piaget

societal and academic endeavors" (Commons and Ross, 2008, p. 321). Piagets perspective on formal operations appears to have been ...

Different Age Groups and the Operational Stages of Jean Piaget

be some semblance of order. A SETTING ON A RAINY DAY For the purpose of this model paper the setting is a rainy day in which th...

Imprisoned Child Molesters and Theories of Psychology

response to how the person was treated when he was a child? Is their a deep psychological deviancy that sees a child as an appropr...

Infant Cognition, Habituation and Violation Of Expectation

combination of judgment and awareness; indeed, this aspect is most definitely associate with ecological concern, inasmuch as cogni...

Overview of Constructivism

cognition and a good deal of the theory is related to child development research, with particular emphasis on Piaget ("Construct...

Child Development and the Theories of Jean Piaget

is so obvious (Holme, 1972). As this Piaget experiment suggests a childs knowledge builds upon itself from experience and advances...

Analysis of Cognitive Development

This paper explores Piaget's theories of cognitive development, including his stages of development. The essay reports some of the...

Case Study : Child Observation

observed in the classroom. One was a small group activity where Linda worked with two classmates to build a tower with different s...

Case Study: Unsatisfactory Performance

degree is in business management. He avoids as many assignments as he can and pushes work onto coworkers. Does not admit he cannot...

Piaget's Background, Theories and Influence

basic foundation for Systems theorists, Gestaltists and other theorists (Boeree, 2006). He subsequently earned his Doctorate in 1...

Development Theories

stages. He said that there are three fundamental processes that are involved with learning new information. Assimilation allows th...